Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

"Is this corn seedling?"

Seeing those seedlings, Zhang Shouren was taken aback, asked first, and then held the seedlings in his hands to examine them carefully.

Sure enough, these green seedlings are corn seedlings.This thing has been sown widely in later generations. Zhang Shouren had seen it hundreds of times when he was a child, so he couldn't go wrong with this seedling.

"Guohua, you actually know him?"

Chen Zilong was also taken aback. The corn seeds were bought from the Wa country at the end of last year, and they were delivered together with tomato, sweet potato, and chili seeds. This was one of the few important things that Zhang Shouren asked the Zheng family to do. [

Of course Zhang Shouren had seen the seed at that time, but the seedling had only sprouted not long ago, so how could he recognize it?

"This is chili, this is sweet potato, haha, hahaha."

Zhang Shouren laughed with his hips on his hips, looking extremely happy.

The inner guards around him were all taken aback, even Li Xin and other civil officials saw Zhang Shouren so happy for the first time, and everyone felt incredible for a while.

"What's so special about sweet potatoes?"

Chen Zilong was quite depressed, scratching his head and said: "I have a lot of people in the north of the Ming Dynasty for this thing, but the output is too low... My teacher, that is, Xu Wending has tried to improve sweet potatoes, but tried many ways, but the effect is not great. I don't know what to be happy about seeing this seedling?"

When I got the seeds back last year, including sweet potatoes, Chen Zilong complained a lot.This thing was introduced to China very early, and has been planted for decades, but the yield is too low, but the advantage is that it is easy to survive and does not require much care, so it is slowly spreading, picking up some unused wasteland dry field species Go on, harvest some at least, it can be eaten by people or fed to pigs, one mu of land can harvest one or two hundred catties, at most no more than three hundred catties, if it is not easy and worry-free, vines can also burn pots, I am afraid No one really grows this thing... After all, it's not serious food.

As for pepper, it was also introduced to China decades ago, but only from the coast to the southwest, and then slowly spread to Huguang, Sichuan, and finally spread throughout China.

But if you want to say that spicy food can be eaten everywhere in the land of China, it must be after the material distribution is particularly developed.

Corn was artificially interfered by Zhang Shouren, who came in decades earlier.

"This crop, according to the Zheng family's shippers, has been sown in many places in the Wa country. The yield is low and it is not delicious. It is even inferior to black rice, millet, and sorghum. But the key is drought tolerance, and it can survive with little water. , throw it casually, and don’t care about it. Guohua, last time I received a letter from Wu Ciwei. He passed through Henan and returned to Nandu. The case of dying on the way is not the only case. I am very sad after reading such a tragedy. Although I am not from Henan, nor from Shaanxi and Shanxi, I share the same heart. Just imagine what it feels like to die of starvation on the way. , the heart is like frying back and forth in a frying pan... Now my place in Fushan is highly productive, but the world is so big that there are many places where adults' laws cannot be practiced. If we can implement these methods without fear of cold Drought-tolerant alien species, people in the world will suffer less from cold and hunger, and that will fulfill my life's wish!"

Chen Zilong was dark and thin, and his voice was a little choked up at the end.

It seems that Wu Yingji's letter had a great impact on him. These talented scholars in the south have always boasted of being romantic, and they have always lived in affluent places such as Nanjing and Suzhou. Chaos is just talk.